Review the feedback report

You've chosen an essay and have clicked into it to see the feedback report. Let's explore the sections of that report and how to interact with them. The screenshot below is marked to correspond with the numbered sections in this article.

Grading Report Overview

When you open a student submission, the grading report is organized into tabs and actions that let you review, adjust, and finalize feedback. The next steps involve reviewing the different sections of the report and marking it as reviewed so that you can move on to the next student submission. You can track which report you are reviewing by noting the assignment selected in the sidebar as well as the essay title and (when available) the student name in the area above the report.

2. Feedback Report

This tab summarizes the rubric-based evaluation. Each rubric category (such as Focus, Organization, Evidence, and Clarity) is scored and paired with short narrative feedback.

• Category Scores: Shows the student’s performance on each rubric criterion.
• Suggestions: Provides practical ideas for improvement, such as adding detail or clarifying a claim.
• Editable Comments: Teachers can edit or delete AI-suggested feedback, or add stickers for emphasis.

3. **Grammar Report **

The Writing Report focuses on mechanics and clarity.

• Grammar & Spelling: Highlights issues directly in the text with explanations of why the usage is incorrect.
• Writing Suggestions: Offers corrections (for example, replacing that with whom), which the teacher can review or dismiss.
• Impact Notes: Explains how the error affects formality, accuracy, or readability.

4. **AI Detection **(Integrity Check)

• AI Writing Detection: Provides a likelihood score and burstiness measures (how varied the writing patterns are).
• Plagiarism (coming soon): Will flag text copied between their peers with expanded detection coming as well.
• Interpretation Guidance: This section helps teachers decide how to weigh the results when reviewing student work.

5. Comments

Teachers can leave their own inline comments by highlighting sections of the essay.

• Contextual Feedback: Attach comments directly to sentences or paragraphs.
• Personal Notes: Comments are saved in the Comments tab for easy tracking.
• Flexible Use: Can supplement rubric feedback with personal encouragement or targeted advice.

Additional Page Controls

Mark as Reviewed

Above the report tabs, a Mark as reviewed button finalizes the grading. Once clicked, the submission’s status updates on the assignment list, helping teachers track progress.

Navigation Arrows

Arrows in the top-right corner let teachers move quickly between students’ essays without returning to the assignment list.

Actions Menu

A menu in the top-right corner provides additional actions:

• Print feedback – send the full report to a printer.
• Export to PDF – generate a PDF file of the report (see the help article about exporting to PDF for more details on this option)
• Export to Google Classroom (or Canvas or Schoology)
• Edit essay name – rename the submission if needed.
• Regrade – apply a different rubric or grading settings.
• **Copy Feedback Report **– copy text from the feedback section of the report for reuse or record-keeping.
• Copy Grammar Report – copy text from the grammar/writing section for reuse or record-keeping.
• Delete – remove the student's submission from the essay list.

Regrade

This button allows you to run the essay through the AI grader again. Clicking the button will bring up the grading settings screen and allow you to change a number of settings, including the student level, language, feedback detail level, grading intensity, and the ability to enable flexible scoring or add additional grading instructions for the AI.

The only settings not available to change here are the rubric or additional assignment material. In both cases, these aspects are always applied to all essays uploaded to the assignment and can only be changed if regrading every essay. This ensures grading consistency and integrity across all submissions for any individual class assignment. Regrading is discussed in more detail in the next article.

Column size slider

By clicking and holding on the slider icon in the middle of the report screen, you can resize the columns and choose to expand one side while reducing the width of the other. This is an excellent way to focus on a particular aspect of the report. Combined with collapsing the sidebar, the moveable slider can give you significant screen real estate for the report section you wish to review.

Compare with Previous Work (coming soon)

At the bottom of the essay panel, teachers will soon be able to select prior work from the same student in order to compare the current submission to their earlier work. This makes it easier to spot growth or recurring challenges, particularly when part of the assignment is to submit drafts for teacher feedback.

Continue the walkthrough: Regrade essays (entire assignment or single submission) >>>

Updated on: 01/16/2026